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While it is only a formality, the very insistence on having a first-year complete a list of the courses he or she plans to take in the next four years is absurd. How can we possibly know at that point if our interests will remain unchanged? But you can always switch majors, they deceitfully tell you--sure, from biochemistry to biology, not from biology to Persian studies and not from psychology to history and literature--at least not if you are hoping to graduate with your class...
...company promises more smells over the next year. Not on the list, however, are sex-attracting pheromones. Although Ferris co-founder Scott Jochim has had plenty of requests, he worries that each whiff could be "addictive." Sure, but so is the smell of money...
...usual phone numbers, written messages such as "Running late" or "Where's my heroin?" Almost all today's alphas, unbeknown to their owners, can also receive E-mail. That means Mom can beckon you home by sending a message over CompuServe or your husband can slip an electronic grocery list across the Internet and onto your hip. (If you have a pager, one phone call to your service provider should be enough to turn on the mail...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
...marriages begin so grandly, their endings always seem a bit pathetic, more fizz than bang. So it was that last Wednesday, 27 reporters and a civilian were the only ones present when the names of SARAH FERGUSON, Duchess of York, and PRINCE ANDREW, Duke of York, were on the list of 29 couples granted a decree nisi (a.k.a. a "quickie divorce") in a three-minute ceremony. The prince was holed up in his navy barracks, and the duchess was smothering her sadness in the snows of Switzerland, accompanied by daughters BEATRICE, 7 and EUGENIE, 6. "Of course...